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  • 71small — Synonyms and related words: Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, baby, back burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, borne, boyish,… …

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  • 72small minded — Synonyms and related words: authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, little minded, mean, mean minded, mean spirited, narrow, narrow… …

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  • 73straitlaced — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist …

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  • 74uncharitable — Synonyms and related words: authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, little minded, mean, mean minded, mean spirited, narrow, narrow… …

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  • 75ungenerous — Synonyms and related words: authoritarian, avaricious, bigot, bigoted, borne, cheap, close, closed, closefisted, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hardfisted, hidebound, illiberal, inconsequent, inconsequential,… …

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  • 76spir´it|ed|ness — spir|it|ed «SPIHR uh tihd», adjective. 1. full of energy and spirit; lively; dashing; bold: »a spirited race horse. He entered into a spirited discussion concerning the relative merits of the imperishable Master of Baker Street (Anthony Boucher) …

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  • 77spir´it|ed|ly — spir|it|ed «SPIHR uh tihd», adjective. 1. full of energy and spirit; lively; dashing; bold: »a spirited race horse. He entered into a spirited discussion concerning the relative merits of the imperishable Master of Baker Street (Anthony Boucher) …

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  • 78spir|it|ed — «SPIHR uh tihd», adjective. 1. full of energy and spirit; lively; dashing; bold: »a spirited race horse. He entered into a spirited discussion concerning the relative merits of the imperishable Master of Baker Street (Anthony Boucher). SYNONYM(S) …

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  • 79Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …

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  • 80Romance copula — The copula or copulae (the verb or verbs meaning to be ) in all Romance languages largely derive from the Latin verbs esse to be (ultimately from Proto Indo European *h1es , as in English is); stāre to stand (ultimately from Proto Indo European… …

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